The Board of Directors of the Iranian-American Scholarship Fund would like to extend sincere thanks to all who
have supported this Scholarship Fund for the past 14 years. For the academic year of 2011-12 scholarships are
awarded to 20 outstanding applicants. This brings our total to 150 scholarships awarded to date. Congratulations to
this year's recipients.
2011-12 Graduate Recipients
Javad A. Adel
University of Denver
Int. Development Africa
Matin Khoshnevis
The Farhang and Parichehr Mehr Annual Honrary Scholarship (1)
The Samadi Family Annual Scholarship
The Kazem Niamir Memorial Scholarship (2)
UC Irvine -Medicine
The Zarrinkelk, Kashefipour & Co. Annual Scholarship
The Amirnovin Family Annual Scholarship
Hediyeh Mohajerjasbi
The Shamsedeen Zayanderoudi Annual Memorial Scholarship (3)
Pepperdine University-Law
Naziol Sadat Nazarinia
U of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Arash Razavi
U. of San Diego – Law
Pooyan Rohani
Vanderbilt University-Medicine
Aryan Sameri
Baylor College of Medicine
Murteza M. Shahkolahi
Howard University-Medicine
Melodi Yarshar
Columbia University –
Architecture
Omid Yousefian
UC San Diego-Medicine
The Firouzan Gheissari Annual Memorial Scholarship (4)
The Gholamhossein & MahMonier Estakhry Annual Memorial Scholarship (5)
The M. Ali Aghassi Annual Memorial Scholarship (6)
The Morteza Gheissari Annual Memorial Scholarship (7)
The Persian Cultural Center Annual Scholarship
The AIAP-Association of Iranian-American Professionals Annual Scholarship
The Abbas and Jannat Bolandgray Annual Scholarship
The Mojdeh Akhavan Annual Scholarship
The Khalil Alavi Annual Scholarship (8)
The Jamileh Yeganeh Memorial Annual Scholarship (9)
The SUSMA- Shiraz University School of Medical Sciences Alumni Annual Scholarship
The Medical Billing Specialists, Inc. Scholarship
The Habib Tayebi Annual Honorary Scholarship (10)
The Massih & Haleh Tayebi Annual Scholarship
The Behrooz and Nasrin (Owsia) Akbarnia Annual Scholarship
The Mahmood and Fereshteh Mahdavi Annual Scholarship
2011-12 Undergraduate Recipients
Anna Abdollahi
U. of Rhode Island-Nutrition
The Ostad Family Scholarship
The Minou Sadeghi Scholarship
Parisa Behzadi
The Farnam Family Annual Scholarship
U.of Michigan-Near East Studies
Lida Binesheian
The IASF Mother Fund Annual Scholarship
U. of Texas Austin Pre-Pharmacy
UC Berkeley- English Lit.
Armen Davoudian
The Nosrat Kazemi Nik Honorary Scholarship (11)
The Mehdi and Zohreh Kazemzadeh Annual Scholarship (12)
Farhad Ghadamali American
The Habib and Sharareh Hariri Annual Scholarship
River College-Mechanical Eng.
Denna Good-Mojab
The Belgheys Tayebi Annual Memorial Scholarship (13)
U Of Washington–English/Music
Parisa Lotfi American
River College-Aerospace Eng.
Farzin Moridi
The Jamshidi-Zadeh Annual Scholarship
Laura Jane Buck Memorial Scholarship (14)
The Fred and Gita (Khadiri) Khoroushi Annual Scholarship
UCLA-Political Science
Mercede Ramjerdi
UC Bekeley- Environment
The Ahmad Kashirad Memorial Scholarship (15)
The Ali Asghar Razavieh Memorial Scholarship (16)
Negin Shojaeinia
U of North Carolina- Public Health
The Golamreza Bagherzadeh Honorary Scholarahip (17)
The Mohammad Massoud Honorary Scholarship (18)
The numbered scholarships have been established by: 1. Family, Friends & Colleagues in Honor of Professor & Mrs. Mehr
2. Friends of the Niamir Family 3. Mr. Shahyar and Mrs. Laleh Zayanderoudi 4. Mrs. Farihan Gheissari Akbarian 5. Mrs. Shahri
Estakhry & Ms. Sarah Aghassi, Esq. 6. Ms. Sarah Aghassi, Esq. 7. Dr. & Mrs. Ali Gheissari 8.&9. Ms. Soussan Alavi Sullins &
Dr. Sassan Alavi 10. & 13. The Tayebi Family 11. Family & Friends of Mrs. Kazemi 12. Ms. Mercedeh, Ms. Ruksana and Mr. Ali
Kazemzadeh, Ms Nazanin Parvizi Nejad and Mr. Laurent Teisseyre 14. Mr. Mohammad Samii 15. Family & Friends of Dr.
Kashirad 16. Class of 1977 Pahlavi U. High School 17. Ms. Lili Fororaughi 18. Ali & Haida (Massoud) Mojdehi, Hamid &
Maryam Massoud.
Our sincere thanks to the following and those who wish to remain anonymous, for making the 2011-12 scholarships
possible: Abdolmajid Aalam; Ladan Abtahi; Amir Aghassi; Sarah E. Aghassi; Farihan Gheissari Akbarian; Behrooz & Nasrin
(Owsia) Akbarnia; Mojdah M. Akhavan; Sassan Alavi; Amirnovin Family; Mohammad & Zohreh Ashrafzadeh; Asst. of IranianAmerican Professionals; Hormoz Azar; Abbas Azimi; Azar Azimi; Lilly & Mussa Banisadre; Abdolmajid & Homa Bayat; Behnam
Behzadi; Mohammad & Nancy Behforouz; Abbas & Jannat Bolandgray; Laura Jane Buck Trust; Zohreh Firoozabadi Bunshah; D. J.
Djahanbani; Shahri Estakhry; Yahya & Nasrin Faramarzi; Javad & Sofia Farnam; Lili Forouraghi; Gary & Zohreh Ghahramani;
Touraj Ghanjouni; Ali & Anna Gheissari; Hayedeh Ghobadian; Manoucher & Andrea Gueramy; Ali M. Hadavi; Parviz & Parichehr
Haghighi; Manijeh & Mehdi Hakimi; Habib & Sharareh Hariri; H.M. Hashemian; Mahin H. Heravi; Fredun & Hedwig Hojabri;
Toraj & Fereshteh Izadpanah; Khosrow Jaber; Bahman & Zahra Joorabchi; Julazadeh Family; Parmis & Kamran Kashirad; Mehdi &
Zohreh Kazemzadeh; Mercedeh, Ruksana and Ali Kazemzadeh; Mousa Kohaneim & Family; Mahmood & Fereshteh Mahdavi;
Hamid & Elham Mahdavy; Mani Mahdyoon; Mahmoud & Manijeh Maheronnaghsh; Mahmoud & Banafsheh Makarechian; Niloufar
Makarechian; Mahroo F. Malek; Hamid & Maryam Massoud; Mehran Mehr; Mehrdad Mehr; Kourosh & Farnaz Mehrayin; Madiheh
Mirkazemi; Kosrow & Forouzan Moaveni; Shahrzad Mohammadi; Ali & Haida Mojdehi; Samira Nabavi-Nouri; Nader & Lida
(Entezami) Naderi; Khosrow & Shiva Nasr; Nazanin Parvizi Nejad;; Kazem & Susie Niamir; Nasser Ostad; Nasser & Ruby Ovissi;
Persian Cultural Center; Hassan & Gitti Pourafzal; Qulacomm; Feriddon & Hamideh Raafat; Shahbaz & Marzieh Raza; Jalil & Lili
Riazi; Massoud & Maryam Riazi; Ali & Ladan (Keramati) Sabihi; Minou E. Sadeghi; Parwiz Sahebi; Sadegh Salmassi; Ali Samadi;
Hassan & Nayer Samadi; Mohammad Samii; ; Mahdokht Sanati; Mahmood & Manigeh Sefidan; Parvin N. Shailbani; Seyfollah &
Arman (Bastani) Sharghi; Homa Smith; Sion Soleymani; Manutchehr & Minoo Sohaey; Soussan Alavi Sullins; SUSMA; Jamshid &
Barbara Tavangar; Massih & Haleh Tayebi; Laurent Teisseyre; Mehdi & Mardjan Zarabi; Zarrinkelk, Kashefipour & Co. CPA;
Shahyar & Laleh Zayanderoudi; Bijan & Shole Zayer. Ziba.